βήχιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βήξ (bḗx, “cough”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bɛ̌ː.kʰi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbe̝.kʰi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβi.çi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvi.çi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.çi.on/
Noun
βήχῐον • (bḗkhion) n (genitive βηχῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βήχῐον tò bḗkhion |
τὼ βηχῐ́ω tṑ bēkhíō |
τᾰ̀ βήχῐᾰ tà bḗkhia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βηχῐ́ου toû bēkhíou |
τοῖν βηχῐ́οιν toîn bēkhíoin |
τῶν βηχῐ́ων tôn bēkhíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βηχῐ́ῳ tôi bēkhíōi |
τοῖν βηχῐ́οιν toîn bēkhíoin |
τοῖς βηχῐ́οις toîs bēkhíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βήχῐον tò bḗkhion |
τὼ βηχῐ́ω tṑ bēkhíō |
τᾰ̀ βήχῐᾰ tà bḗkhia | ||||||||||
Vocative | βήχῐον bḗkhion |
βηχῐ́ω bēkhíō |
βήχῐᾰ bḗkhia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: bechion
Further reading
- “βήχιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βήχιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βήχιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ιον
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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